Question
I am 35 and have slept my life away. I am really worried because I have done this my whole life but the older i get the worse it gets. I have to take drugs to go to work or i wont even hear the alarm clock. It is starting to ruin my life and i am now unemployed again. I have a kid to raise and no money and cant get up long enough to help her get dressed for school.We stay with my mom now so she can help with her. I am missing so much but can not wake up and I am pretty thin but eat like for 3 men. I sleep, get to pee even though i wet the bed till i was 15 because i never woke up until morning when I was a kid and didnt even know i wet the bed. i am tired all the time. only time i have any energy is on stimulants that i dont need to be doing because i have no prescription and it is illegal and I was arrested once too for it. But i was and have not done drugs cuz i wanted to but because i had to make it through the day to take my kid by bringing home a check. I am very energetic on stimulants but as soon as i run out i sleep again soon and it not from being on drugs because i do not do drugs when i was a kid or not until about 10 tens ago and i slept all the time then too. it is terrible and i am sleeping my life away. my kid suffers and i suffer my mom and friends suffer. and i have bad self esteem and feel like a loser but i am really scared now. Today i woke up and my mom says i have been asleep for 4 days and never took a shower or remember getting up even once. my mom said she never saw me get up either but she said i snapped at my kid this morning when she shook me to help her find her library books for school and i did not help her i am a terrible mom and wish i would just die sometimes. all i do is take up space on the couch anyway. i feel good on drugs or maybe just 2 to 4 days a month naturally but the rest of the time i call down time. what is this ? is it laziness? Four days people of constant sleep and still tired and going back to bed right now. Sometimes i hum in my sleep for hours too my family says and they also said that i hold one arm extended straight up while laying on my back asleep for hours too. that is embarrassing what is it? what is wrong with me? I have never met anyone in the world like me . Similar but not this. I can not support myself and kid and cant stop eating and lucky to not be huge. and i still f___---- in g tired.... What do i need to do. Four days ?? never get up i am scared i wont wake up at one day. i am just miserable and in fear when i do feel good that it wont last long.
Answer
You may very well indeed may be suffering from a sleep seizure the humming and holding your hand out straight while you sleep or narcolepsy. I need you to go to the website sleepnet.com click on disorders narcolepsy and read about it, you dont need to have all the symptoms,. Then you need to contact your local hospital and ask for their neurology clinic. Clinics are free. Make an appointment and first tell the doctor about the humming and hand stretched out, then tell the doctor that you think you might also have narcolepsy. If there is no sleep center he will refer you or at least get the appropriate tests done such as an mri and overnite sleep test. But you need to do it now. No one has died from sleeping too much., and there is no disease that you dont wake up from unless you are in a coma. Its fear thats not letting you get the diagnosis. If there are no clinics whre you live then walk into an emergency room and explain the hand shaking, they may refer you to a neurologist . Good luck feel free to email again karel
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